The physics of fatigue crack initiation

MD Sangid - International journal of fatigue, 2013 - Elsevier
The fatigue life of a component can be expressed as the sum of two segments of life:(a) the
number of loading cycles required to initiate a crack and (b) the number of cycles it takes that …

Failure of metals II: Fatigue

A Pineau, DL McDowell, EP Busso, SD Antolovich - Acta Materialia, 2016 - Elsevier
In this interpretive review, fatigue in metallic systems is considered primarily from the
perspective of interactions between the microstructure, the deformation mode and the …

Microstructure-sensitive computational modeling of fatigue crack formation

DL McDowell, FPE Dunne - International journal of fatigue, 2010 - Elsevier
Recent trends towards simulation of the cyclic slip behavior of polycrystalline and polyphase
microstructures of advanced engineering alloys subjected to cyclic loading are facilitating …

A micromechanics-based machine learning model for evaluating the microstructure-dependent rolling contact fatigue performance of a martensitic steel

W Wang, P Wei, H Liu, C Zhu, G Deng, H Liu - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
We designed the prediction system for the rolling contact fatigue (RCF) performance of
martensitic steel based on the machine learning (ML) algorithm and micro-mechanical …

A perspective on trends in multiscale plasticity

DL McDowell - International Journal of Plasticity, 2010 - Elsevier
Research trends in metal plasticity over the past 25years are briefly reviewed. The myriad of
length scales at which phenomena involving microstructure rearrangement during plastic …

Reduced-order structure-property linkages for polycrystalline microstructures based on 2-point statistics

NH Paulson, MW Priddy, DL McDowell, SR Kalidindi - Acta Materialia, 2017 - Elsevier
Computationally efficient structure-property (SP) linkages (ie, reduced order models) are a
necessary key ingredient in accelerating the rate of development and deployment of …

Computational homogenization of polycrystals

J Segurado, RA Lebensohn, J LLorca - Advances in Applied Mechanics, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper reviews the current state of the art in the simulation of the mechanical behavior of
polycrystalline materials by means of computational homogenization. The key ingredients of …

[HTML][HTML] Crystal plasticity finite element modeling of grain size and morphology effects on yield strength and extreme value fatigue response

A Lakshmanan, M Yaghoobi, KS Stopka… - journal of materials …, 2022 - Elsevier
A computational framework is presented to include the effects of grain size and morphology
in the crystal plasticity finite element (CPFE) method for simulations of polycrystals. The …

Microstructural extremes and the transition from fatigue crack initiation to small crack growth in a polycrystalline nickel-base superalloy

J Miao, TM Pollock, JW Jones - Acta Materialia, 2012 - Elsevier
The fatigue behavior of the nickel-base superalloy René 88 DT has been investigated at
room temperature with fully reversed loading in an ultrasonic fatigue apparatus operating at …

[PDF][PDF] A short introduction to basic aspects of continuum micromechanics

HJ Böhm - Cdl-fmd report, 1998 - ilsb.tuwien.ac.at
In the present report some basic issues of and some of the modeling strategies used for
studying static and quasistatic problems in continuum micromechanics of materials are …